WARSAW, Poland — Flooding caused by heavy rains has killed at least eight people in Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic, officials said Saturday.

Lenka Moravcova, a spokeswoman for a rescue service in the northern Czech Republic, said three men drowned in a region on the border with Poland and Germany on Saturday. A fourth victim was found drowned late Saturday. Details were not given.

At least a thousand people had to be evacuated, some from areas below two dams threatened by rising waters. People in the towns of Chrastava and Frydlant were rescued by helicopters from the roofs of their homes.

Meteorologists warned the rains were not expected to stop until today.

Authorities in the city of Chemnitz told German news agency DAPD that three bodies were found Saturday in the basement of a flooded building in the town of Neukirchen in Saxony.

Heavy rains in Poland caused flooding in most of a town of 18,000 people and killed one person. The Associated Press

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